{"id":173,"date":"2013-04-15T09:55:31","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T09:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.vwlowen.co.uk\/?p=173"},"modified":"2013-05-18T08:44:27","modified_gmt":"2013-05-18T08:44:27","slug":"make-a-time-machine-using-your-redundant-brown-bin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/?p=173","title":{"rendered":"Make a Time Machine using your (redundant) Brown Bin!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.vwlowen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/brown_bin_small1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-184\" alt=\"brown_bin_small\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.vwlowen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/brown_bin_small1.jpg\" width=\"195\" height=\"212\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, after an 8-month consultation, my local Council says on its website:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The consultation has now closed and over 6,500 responses are being compiled into a report which will be considered by the Council&#8217;s Cabinet on <span style=\"color: blue;\">7th February<\/span>.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\" \/><br \/>\nOne question in the consultation asked if we&#8217;d be prepared to pay to have our brown bins emptied and 51.7% of us said it would be totally unacceptable.<\/p>\n<p>Err, so how come I&#8217;ve just received a hand-delivered leaflet telling me I&#8217;ll need to pay to have my Brown Bin emptied in future which is dated <strong><span style=\"color: blue;\">31 Jan 13<\/span><\/strong> &#8211; a full 7 days <em>before<\/em> the Council&#8217;s Cabinet met to consider it. Maybe they could pick the lottery numbers the same way and solve their financial problems at a stroke!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.vwlowen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/leaflet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-171\" alt=\"leaflet\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.vwlowen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/leaflet-300x264.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/leaflet-300x264.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/leaflet.jpg 326w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Really strange!\u00a0There&#8217;s obviously something more to these Brown Bins than meets the eye. I&#8217;m hanging on to mine.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Even if I can&#8217;t get mine to travel backwards and forwards in time (it&#8217;s definitely not bigger on the inside), I should at least be able to turn it into a handy rainwater butt!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, after an 8-month consultation, my local Council says on its website: &#8220;The consultation has now closed and over 6,500 responses are being compiled into a report which will be considered by the Council&#8217;s Cabinet on 7th February.&#8221; One question in the consultation asked if we&#8217;d be prepared to pay to have our brown bins [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-council"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263,"href":"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}